Meeting 2014.03.28 (google hangout)

Participants

• Alex Snaps
• Ben Cotton
• Brian Martin
• David Mossakowski
• Peter Lawrey
• Rick Hightower
• Manik Surtani
• Mircea Markus

Agenda

1. Roundtable Introduction: background, expectations from this JSR
2. Relation with JSR-107 - shall we extend the API or go our own way?
3. Go over the list of proposed features and gather initial thoughts
4. Regular meetings: how often, when to start

Minutes

Roundtable/background:

• Mircea Markus - Infinispan, XA transaction, HA/Clustering
• Ben Cotton - data grid power-user, supercomputer deployments, high performance computing
• Brian Martin - WebShpere, WebSphere eXtreme Scale
• Peter Lawrey - high frequency trading systems
• David Mossakowski - JSR-107 EG, Coherence, Gemfire
• Alex Snaps - JSR-107 EG, HA/Clustering, Ehcache/Terracotta

Relation with JSR-107 API wise

• open discussion, should be revisited once the set of features covered by JSR-347 are defined
• consider providing an JSR-107 adapter

Skim over the list of proposed features

• Async API
  • everybody likes it
• Map/Reduce
  • desirable
• Grouping API
  • desirable
  • consider an alternative(better) name: data affinity service
• Eventual consistent API
  • partitioning/split brain should be considered
  • eventual consistent API seems to be desirable
• Query
  • filtering + querying API desirable
• Client/Server
  • a Client/Server protocol should be outside the scope of the spec

Action items

• add membership change notifications to the list of features (Mircea)
• raise a discussion around having regular meetings (Alex)
• clarify with JCP admin legal concerns about public mailing lists (Mircea)